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Table Of Contents
- Norton Ghost™
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Introducing Norton Ghost™
- 2. Installing Norton Ghost
- 3. Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- 4. Getting Started
- Key product components
- How you use Norton Ghost
- Starting Norton Ghost
- Configuring Norton Ghost default options
- Selecting a default backup destination
- Adjusting the effects of a backup on computer performance
- Adjusting default tray icon settings
- Managing file types
- Using aliases for external drives
- Configuring FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy
- Logging Norton Ghost messages
- Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages
- 5. Best practices for backing up your data
- 6. Backing up entire drives
- 7. Backing up files and folders
- 8. Running and managing backup jobs
- Running an existing backup job immediately
- Adjusting the speed of a backup
- Stopping a backup or recovery task
- Verifying that a backup is successful
- Editing backup settings
- Enabling event-triggered backups
- Editing a backup schedule
- Turning off a backup job
- Deleting backup jobs
- Adding users who can back up your computer
- 9. Backing up remote computers from your computer
- 10. Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- Monitoring backup protection from the Home page
- Monitoring backup protection from the Status page
- Configuring Norton Ghost to send SNMP traps
- Customize status reporting
- Viewing drive details
- Improving the protection level of a drive
- Using event log information to troubleshoot problems
- 11. Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- 12. Managing backup destinations
- 13. Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
- 14. Recovering a computer
- About recovering a computer
- Starting a computer by using the recovery environment
- Preparing to recover a computer
- Recovering a computer
- Restoring multiple drives by using a system index file
- Recovering files and folders from the recovery environment
- Using the networking tools in the recovery environment
- Viewing properties of recovery points and drives
- About the Support Utilities
- 15. Copying a drive
- A. Using a search engine to search recovery points
- Index
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Select one or more drives to back up and click Next.
Note: Press and hold Ctrl to select multiple drives.
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Click Next.
5
In the Backup Destination dialog box, select from the following options:
Browse to the location in which you want to
store the recovery points.
If Norton Ghost detects that this location
does not have enough available space, it
alerts you. You should choose another
location that has more space.
Folder field
If you want to rename the recovery point,
click Rename, and then type a new file name.
Default file names include the name of the
computer followed by the drive letter.
Rename button
If you want to save the recovery point on a
network share, type the user name and
password for network access.
See “About network credentials” on page 66.
Network Credentials
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Click Next.
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On the Options page, select from the following options:
Select one of the following compression
levels for the recovery point:
■ None
■ Standard
■ Medium
■ High
The results can vary depending on the types
of files that are saved in the drive.
Compression
Select this option to automatically test
whether a recovery point or set of files is
valid or corrupt.
Verify recovery point after creation
Backing up entire drives
Defining a drive-based backup
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